A court in Dhaka on Wednesday remanded Abdus Salam Murshedy, former Awami League lawmaker from the Khulna-4 constituency, Salman F Rahman, private industry and investment adviser to the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury, adviser and former principal secretary to the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and Mesbah Uddin Ahmed, former secretary of the Youth and Sports Ministry, in separate murder cases.
A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed former Awami League lawmaker Abdus Salam Murshedy on a two-day remand in a case filed over the death of garment worker Rubel in Adabor, Dhaka, during a mass protest.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Akhtaruzzaman passed the order after Investigation Officer Md Rezaul Karim, an inspector of the Detective Branch of Police, produced Murshedy before the court with a 10-day remand application.
Murshedy has been shown as arrested in the case after the Investigation Officer submitted an application to this effect.
In the forwarding report, the Investigation Officer said Murshedy was aware of the violence and the killing. Therefore, he needs to be remanded to locate others responsible for committing such offences.
The defence submitted an application seeking bail and the cancellation of the remand application, arguing that their client was implicated in the case as part of a conspiracy to harass him.
After hearing both sides, the magistrate rejected the defence's plea and placed Murshedy on remand.
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Salam Murshedy, also the senior vice-president of the Bangladesh Football Federation, from Dhaka's Bashundhara Residential Area last night.
On 22 August, Rafiqul Islam, father of the victim, filed a murder case with Adabor Police Station against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 147 others.
In the case statement, the complainant alleged that some of the accused, acting under instruction, directly or indirectly participated in the attack on hundreds of students, including Rubel, who were protesting on Ring Road in Adabor on 5 August.
Rubel suffered critical bullet wounds and succumbed to his injuries at a hospital two days later, the statement said. Earlier, former public administration minister Farhad Hossain was placed on a five-day remand for interrogation in the same case.
A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed Salman F Rahman, private industry and investment adviser to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, on a seven-day remand in connection with two attempted murder cases.
